Monday, October 12, 2009

Tribal chief vs. Bloomberg

Mayor Bloomberg, along with Representative Peter King, wrote an August 4, 2008, editorial arguing that cigarette sales on reservations should be taxed—one line insinuated that cigarette-smuggling money might go to terrorists. Chief Wallace is still riled about it. “We got blamed for the MTA deficit! Phenomenal, man. Supporting terrorism. It upsets me because this is our land, whether we occupy it or not. It’s still our land, and we defend our homeland against all enemies, domestic and foreign.”

On August 25 of this year, a federal-court judge in Brooklyn handed down a verdict addressing the Unkechaug’s motion to dismiss. Federal Judge Carol Amon denied the motion and ruled that the state appellate court had misinterpreted the law in question. She ruled that regular tax law indeed applied to the tobacco trade on Indian reservations, as it does everywhere in the state. She issued a temporary injunction banning all further cigarette sales at four stores identified in the city’s suit. Chief Wallace and the Unkechaug appealed. On September 25, the court announced that though the appeal would be heard, the injunction would continue. But that leaves ten other smoke shops in the Poospatuck reservation, and the cars are still backed up around Squaw Lane. “The city will go after every dollar that is owed to city taxpayers,” said Bloomberg in a statement.

Wallace is far from ready to smoke the peace pipe, however. He says it’s the same as it was with whaling in the seventeenth century. “The goal here is not to stop us from selling cigarettes,” Chief Wallace said. “It’s to try and destroy us as a people, because every effort that we made to resolve these things has met with resistance. They don’t want to do it. They want to take it as far as they can to try and kill us.

“They need a scapegoat for not blaming his friends on Wall Street,” said the chief, his tone slowly rising. He began pacing in circles, literally hopping mad. “Who is a convenient scapegoat? The smallest tribe in New York, selling a demonic product—that’s a good scapegoat.”

31 comments:

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I can't see how the city has any authority here. After all, Indian Reservations are sovereign nations, and this one is not anywhere near New York City. If anyone should be bringing suit, its the Town of Brookhaven.

We could always give them blankets covered with smallpox. Wait a minute, someone already did that to the Indians. They act like they were here first. Wait a minute, they were here first. They expect we should treat them like a sovereign nation. Wait a minute, they are a sovereign nation.

I'd like to know how much we pay tobacco farmers to grow tobacco.

I'd like to know what our politicans are doing with the taxes they already steal from us.

The mayor wants all the borough people to stop going to the indians reservations to buy their smokes. He wants us to buy them in the city so he can make money off of us. I say shame on him for trying to bully them. This mayor really needs to keep his nose out of Long Islands business. VOTE HIM OUT IN NOVEMBER!!!

Not that I like the "vices" but if you read the original article, the chief mentioned time after time when his tribe did try "cleaner" ways to make a living, only to have the Europeans shut them down.

The entire square area of their reservation is smaller than one of the large estates in Long Island. They have no hunting grounds, no fishing grounds, no cropland, no real estate to rent. How the heck are they supposed to get by? You try it.

Besides, no one forces you to smoke or gamble and those who choose to have to drive to their reservation. They are not coming here.

Anonymous: What's the different between high tax revenue on cigarettes and gambling that is state run? Maybe the city and state should find another way to fund their pet peeves. Last i read tabacco is still legal, but the hate campaign goes on. Why not let a guy make a buck. If anyone should be pissed off at what history has delt them it's the Native American's.

Thank whatever put Anglo-saxons on this planet---------------------------That would be God , the father almighty, thank you very much! Or should I say I thank God cause you obviously have no faith. Not only am I white, but American too. What about you, are you a make believe American? Ya know, illlegal?

"...this is our land, whether we occupy it or not. It's still our land, and we defend our homeland..."

The "Chief" ought to do some research.

The White Solutrians were here first. Settlers from far across the Great Atlantic Seaway. Originating in Southern France and Northern Spain. These so-called "natives" or rather Beringians - interlopers from the Bering strait - usurped the land from the native white denizens, the original settlers of the copntinent.

Don't fall for the "Chief's" Beringian lies.

BTW A happy Columbus Day to you all.

Hail Columbus! Hail Columbus! Hail Columbus! The Great Explorer and Entrepreneur. The Re-discoverer of the Continent. Some say, subliminal race memory drove him onward. Even the "native" Beringians bow at his name.

I love to see this scumbag mini midget mayor Hitler come out to Long Island. He could pull up on Flanders road, Peconic or 24 and start spewing this BS in front of those people who have been there 200-300 yearsHe'd be chaised out, shot at or beaten to a pulp (in that order)in a heartbeat.--Let him bring his lapdog Kelly.

South Hampton, Riverhead and Brookhaven know better then to stir up 16,000+ people that are already pissed off as hell.

Those Shinnicocks have had up to the ears it with the Bloomberg "Hitler" types trying to steal & tell them what to do.

It would make my day to see Bloomberg or Coumo come out and interfear with them over this matter.Im with the Chief on this, I also happen to know him.-Joe

Nothing for nothing but it is not only the blooming idiot of a mayor but philip morris too. That is why I do not smoke Marlboro but choose to smoke the indian brand which I think is better and less expensive. Fuck bloomberg and philip morris.

Hail Columbus! Hail Columbus! Hail Columbus! The Great Explorer and Entrepreneur. The Re-discoverer of the Continent. Some say, subliminal race memory drove him onward. Even the "native" Beringians bow at his name.

OK George. Wow you are a fool.

*Columbus sent expedition after expedition into the interior. They found no gold fields, but had to fill up the ships returning to Spain with some kind of dividend. In the year 1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died en route. The rest arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town, who reported that, although the slaves were "naked as the day they were born," they showed "no more embarrassment than animals." Columbus later wrote: "Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.

The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

Some wonderful revisionist history their George. Tell me about British Australians being the first white people too I imagine you would claim to be on that land. France did not exist then and the white remains your referring to are hotly debated. It was few people also, not whole tribes going back thousands of years in the Dakotas,Arizona, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and New York State.

These kind of europeans simply believe Amerindians are inferior and needed "masters" to teach them. They are of the same school of Heyerdhal, still looking for the Ark of the Covenants.

The fellow who needs other people to do his research is on and about again. How about you check about Indian Sovereignty on your own. Try Google._____Sounds good! Site your source once and a while. Everything on this site is taken from another source. You reference your information on others research ninety percent of the time. You have gone to school correct? Im very familiar with Native American history. Trust me.

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